Here come all the religious nut huggers (I used to be one until I started reading books) with their female-esque emotional arguments about the existence of their long bearded man in the sky. Think about this for a second, the ONLY reason you believe in god or whatever is because you were raised as a little kid going to sunday school, church, communion, bible study...etc or any combination of those things. You just accept it because it was drilled in your head for years, decades, ...

None of your religious zealots have read any of his work so obviously it's heresy that does not make sense.

"hehehe hawkings is god's joke he hehehe" come on. Is that a real argument to support your fairy tale in the sky?

What about the educated, well read atheists who became devote theists?

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark," he added.

Why would anyone be afraid of death if there was no afterlife? If we just ceased to exist, why would anyone be afraid of that?

Does anyone have a link to where Hawking explains where the quantum fluctuations came from that he said are the "seeds" from which everything else came into existence?

Also, are there any links to him explaining his views of emotions and consciousness?

The Word of God was hungrily sought by the Confederate soldiers,and great efforts were made to provide Bibles from the printing presses in Nashville and otherSouthern cities and by importation from Great Britain. Dr. Moses D. Hoge of Richmond riskedhis life in running the blockade from Charleston, and later into Wilmington, in order to securecopies from the British and Foreign Bible Society. That organization was impressively generous.He went to purchase, but he returned with a gift of 15,000 Bibles, 50,000 Testaments, and250,000 copies of the Gospels and Psalms bound together. That they were needed is attested bythe incessant demand for them on the part of the chaplains and missionaries with the forces.

AND JUST THINK...THE SOUTH COULD HAVE WON IF THEY DIDN'T PUT SO MUCH EFFORT/FAITH IN "GOD".

What about the educated, well read atheists who became devote theists?

The number of people who have turned like you mention is very few... I guess everyone is entitled to their opinions and I would love to know why they turned. Do you?

Fact is that most well educated academics don't subscribe to any religion...except in cases where it's good for their image like owners of companies, public figures, etc...where their customers, electoral base is religous.

The number of people who have turned like you mention is very few... I guess everyone is entitled to their opinions and I would love to know why they turned. Do you?

Fact is that most well educated academics don't subscribe to any religion...except in cases where it's good for their image like owners of companies, public figures, etc...where their customers, electoral base is religous.

You said that the only reason a person would believe in God is because that person was raised to do so.

As for the number of educated, well read atheists who have become theists, it doesn't matter how few or how many. Truth is not a democracy.

As for your suggestion that these atheists turned theists are just politicians who lie to get votes:

Antony Flew, Lee Strobel, C. S. Lewis, Josh McDowell just to name a few. None of these are/were politicians.

The number of people who have turned like you mention is very few... I guess everyone is entitled to their opinions and I would love to know why they turned. Do you?

Fact is that most well educated academics don't subscribe to any religion...except in cases where it's good for their image like owners of companies, public figures, etc...where their customers, electoral base is religous.

Thats not a fact at all. Depends on where these educated academics were educated at and where these "facts" were gathered.

No, I just proved you wrong. You said that the only reason a person would believe in God is because that person was raised to do so.

You said that these atheists turned theists are just politicians who lie to get votes.

Ok, let me expand my original statement. The ONLY reasons or 99.9% of people who are believers were raised from childhood or the people who convert to fill in the void in their failed life ...like drug addicts, alcoholics...etc who are down and out and turn to anything comforting to "get them through their struggle"

The remaining .1 % you can throw in the more or less rational people like you listed that turn later in life

Why would anyone be afraid of death if there was no afterlife? If we just ceased to exist, why would anyone be afraid of that?

Does anyone have a link to where Hawking explains where the quantum fluctuations came from that he said are the "seeds" from which everything else came into existence?

For me, any fear is associated with the cessation of existence. Unlike the Buddha, I have not transcended my desire for life, etc. If I believed in a heaven in which my desires were gratified better than they are here, that would help me out.

I believe "Hawkings" believes that a "law" like gravity can bring everything into being. How the law came into being, who knows?

Yes, I read a shitload. Usually ones that pertain to my work. But when I read other books, I tend to start a few at a time and don't get a chance to finish half of them. Short attention span and get bored easily.

You said that these atheists turned theists are just politicians who lie to get votes.

Ok, let me illustrate my point in a different way.

In the last few weeks when Trump was in the spotlight for his bullshit presidency run he was heavily supported by the idiot "birthers" because he wanted proof of obamas birth certificate. Do you honestly think Trump either gave a fuck or really supported the birther movement? FUCK NO because it's completely asinine that obama isn't a natural born U.S. citizen. He did it to get support and stir the media pot.

Same thing with the political figures who claim they are religious...why? Because most of their constituents are religious and they'll get votes

Ok, let me expand my original statement. The ONLY reasons or 99.9% of people who are believers were raised from childhood or the people who convert to fill in the void in their failed life ...like drug addicts, alcoholics...etc who are down and out and turn to anything comforting to "get them through their struggle"

The remaining .1 % you can throw in the more or less rational people like you listed that turn later in life

these .1% people also built a system of values, a psychism based on other kind of beliefs, influences they ve been fed with subconciously by those who raised them... Which can be considered as a kind of "religion". Basically atheism/science is just another kind of belief, it's just another religion fighting...other religions.

The new mainstream invisible religion is TV and internet. The dominant messages shape our own view of our the modern world constantly. Adultery, sex addictions , hedonism and materialism , consumerism are the new dominant values we re all fed with constantly. Even if you hide from them, other people you have to deal with will project these influences in your own mind. Considering your brain is designed to keep you alive, it will use everything and adapt it to your surroundings so you ll increase your odds of survival and...reproduction.

Ok, let me expand my original statement. The ONLY reasons or 99.9% of people who are believers were raised from childhood or the people who convert to fill in the void in their failed life ...like drug addicts, alcoholics...etc who are down and out and turn to anything comforting to "get them through their struggle"

The remaining .1 % you can throw in the more or less rational people like you listed that turn later in life

these .1% people also built a system of values, a psychism based on other kind of beliefs, influences they ve been fed with subconciously by those who raised them... Which can be considered as a kind of "religion". Basically atheism/science is just another kind of belief, it's just another religion fighting...other religions.

Here's what people fail to understand who have never read any sort of science type shit.

Science does not set out to prove anything. Science tries to explain why natural phenomena/processes happen. It's ever changing. If a more accepted or plausible theory for a process or phenomenon happens then that is the theory that stands until it gets disprove or a better one comes along.

In the last few weeks when Trump was in the spotlight for his bullshit presidency run he was heavily supported by the idiot "birthers" because he wanted proof of obamas birth certificate. Do you honestly think Trump either gave a fuck or really supported the birther movement? FUCK NO because it's completely asinine that obama isn't a natural born U.S. citizen. He did it to get support and stir the media pot.

Same thing with the political figures who claim they are religious...why? Because most of their constituents are religious and they'll get votes

Again, the educated atheists turned theists that I listed do not fit your political figure stereotype. Do a little reading on each one of them and you'll see that you are wrong about them.